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"Everyone asked for Thanksgiving off so no one is getting it off"
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How is this fair? If too many people asked for it off, give it to the people with more seniority instead of acting petty about it.



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the people that have been there for 30 years do get the day off. Don't let them lie to you.

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I don't think there's anyone in our department (deli) that have been there 30 years besides our department head, so maybe she'll be getting it off. 

It just sucks because we're actually extremely dead on Thanksgiving. We give out boxed dinners to customers who come to pick them up, but usually they're boxed up on Tuesday and Wednesday - and we don't exactly have a lot this year. We don't open up the salad bar or make sandwiches like we usually do, and people aren't really coming for cold cuts.  When I worked Thanksgiving last time we were all just standing around until it was time to go home or trying to find busy work, what is the point of that?  



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I didn't work last Thanksgiving, but I ended up having to close on Christmas Eve. I don't understand why Kroger doesn't close up early like they do on Christmas Eve. At least the Deli anyways.

When I did Christmas Eve, we closed the same time that the entire store closed. And we had a mess of orders, and some fool decided to wait until the last minute to pick it up.

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Our store does close early normally they close at 1am but on thanksgiving they close at either 4 or 5pm I forget which. I didn't know the other stores ran normal hours on thanksgiving.



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Our contract says on Thanksgiving Day the store will be staffed with volunteers and no one will have to work more than a 4-hour shift, unless of course they don't get enough volunteers and/or the people who do work are full time in which case they would get 8 hours.  If they don't get enough volunteers, they're suppose to schedule by inverse seniority.  So it's not a case of how much time you have, but how much time you have on everybody else.  You could have 20 years seniority, but if everybody else in your department has more than 20 years, you're going to be scheduled to work.



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Ill work the whole 8 hours plus whatever on Thanksgiving. Holiday pay for slow day plus getting away from annoying family half the day? Kroger is at least good for something...



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Anonymous wrote:

Our contract says on Thanksgiving Day the store will be staffed with volunteers and no one will have to work more than a 4-hour shift, unless of course they don't get enough volunteers and/or the people who do work are full time in which case they would get 8 hours.  If they don't get enough volunteers, they're suppose to schedule by inverse seniority.  So it's not a case of how much time you have, but how much time you have on everybody else.  You could have 20 years seniority, but if everybody else in your department has more than 20 years, you're going to be scheduled to work.


As cheap as Kroger is I doubt there are any departments that have more than one or two people with 20 years seniority.  It would simply cost too much.  



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I'm hoping to work thanksgiving to be honest. the time and a half is awesome.

My store always closes at 5pm, i'm assuming they are again this year but i haven't actually seen anything posted yet.

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Anonymous

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Hell, I'm off on Turkey and would love to work.  But everyone here wants the ot.  We close at 5.



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Can you guys come work mine? I don't want it. I'd rather be relaxing at home than bored out of my mind at work.



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